To:THE PETROGRAD COMMITTEE OF THE R.S.D.L.P.(B.)

Written:Written on November 20 (December 8), 1917Published:First published in 1959 inLenin Miscellany XXXVI.

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To the P.C.

Canone of the comrades write and tell me whether a
resolution on courts of law was adopted yesterday in the
Petrograd Soviet and what has been donepractically?[1]

[1]OnNovember 22 (December 5), 1917, the Council of People’s
Commissars adopted a decree on courts of law, which was
published the following day in the newspaperPravda. On November 24
(December 7), in connection with this decree, the question of
courts of law was discussed at a meeting of the Petrograd Soviet
of Workers’ and Soldiers’ Deputies. The Soviet passed a
resolution approving the decree and indicated practical measures for
its implementation. The district Soviets were instructed to
immediately begin the election of local judges.